The Gothic Condition

Terror, History and the Psyche

Cloth $125.00ISBN: 9781783168217
Published
June 2016
For sale in North and South America, Australia, and New Zealand only

This book brings together fourteen of the most ambitious and thought-provoking recent essays by David Punter, who has been writing on the Gothic for over thirty years. Punter addresses developments in Gothic writing and Gothic criticism since the mid-eighteenth century, by isolating and discussing specific themes and scenarios that have remained relevant to literary and philosophical discussion and by paying close attention to the motifs, figures, and recurrences that loom large in twenty-first-century engagements with the Gothic. Demonstrating an astounding breadth of erudition by a scholar at the top of his field, The Gothic Condition both engages deeply with Gothic history and examines our continuing fascination with Gothic tropes—the vampire, the zombie, the phantom, and the living dead.

Fables of History 2) Francis Latham in the Eighteenth Century 3) Types of Tyranny

Sciences of the Strange 4) Pseudo-Science and the Creation of Monsters 5) Technogenealogies: Family Secrets 6) The Abhuman Remains of the Gothic 7) 'A Foot is What Fits the Shoe': Gothic, Disability and Prosthesis

Some Humans, Some Monstrosities 8) M. R. James: Terror and History 9) Dark and Light Rays: The Penetration of the Body 10) Of Monsters and Animals